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BILL BLOG Monday October 28, 2024 Monday morning and I’m back home in Nashville from Gulf Shores with an 80 degree sunny high today on tap. It’s almost as if I never left the beach.   THE WEEKEND Friday was my last day at this year’s “Meeting of the Minds” with all the Parrot Heads.   I had a noon time show on the big stage at the Hangout with my friend Kelly McGuire and his great band in front of a big crowd of Parrot Heads. He had a couple of my co-writers get up before me… Jessie Ritter being one of those who sang a couple of our co-writes which was very cool. Including the song “ My Favorite Color” .   And then this year’s Female Vocalist of the Year Aubrey Wollett was on stage with the band…and we are frequent co-writers as well. It was great seeing both of them play.   I had so much fun…and Kelly’s musicians are so talented. I closed with “ My Wife’sGonna Leave You ” which had a couple of Parrot Heads running to get to me before I left

BILL BLOG Friday October 25, 2024   It’s Friday morning here in Gulf Shores, Alabama. 85 and sunny here today. Not bad. Gulf Shores is not the only place trending warmer. They’re saying NYC could hit a record high on Halloween. Gonna be some hot kids in those trick or treat costumes.   YESTERDAY Another postcard day in Gulf Shores yesterday and I spent the afternoon at Lulu’s again watching my friend Brent Burns holding court and bringing up some Trop Rock entertainers and singers. Jerry Diaz who started the whole Meeting of the Minds and Parrot Head Clubs across the country was there and got up and sang a few. There’s a great documentary about what Jerry started that’s really great…and Jerry in in the film a lot. Here’s a link to that fun DOCUMENTARY .   My friend Donny Brewer got up and sang the new song “ Those Jeans ” we wrote together that Donny recorded with Stoney Gabel that he put on his brand new CD Winnebago Tapes 2 . Funny song…and it got a

BILL BLOG Thursday October 24, 2024 Hello from Gulf Shores, Alabama this Thursday morning. 82 today with nothing but Gulf Coast sun. Beautiful down here as always.   YESTERDAY I got up at the crack of dark and made my way to the Gulf of Mexico for MOTM…the Meeting of the Minds. There are Parrot Heads gathered from all over the country to celebrate Trop Rock Music.        First stop was Lulu’s where my longtime friend Brent Burns is holding court all week bringing songwriter and entertainers up on stage to join him. I’ll be doing that on Friday at about 1:30 pm.   It was great seeing a bunch of friends in the house including a couple that went on the Rhine River Cruise with me and Brent and my wife Kathy a few years ago with a ship full of Parrot Heads I’ve gotten to know through the years from my trips down here.     GRAND MARSHALL Pretty cool thing happened while I was at Lulu’s. Lulu…Jimmy Buffet’s sister Lulu who owns the place came in and s